The English skipper, however, said she will remember the two losses they had in the series and the (small) margin by which those were lost.

"It's been a great tournament to see some of the cricket played by all the teams. I guess I will look back at losing one game off the last ball and one by 2-3 runs, that probably is going to hurt for a while. "I am looking forward to the next four years, don't know if I will be around but I am looking forward to watch a lot of good cricket. The Sri Lankans, the Pakistanis and the West Indies have been fantastic. The future looks bright," the 33-year-old said. Bates agreed, as she said: "Four years ago, only four teams were competing for the final. Now all the teams have got a genuine chance. The likes of Sri Lanka making a name for themselves and hopefully Sri Lankan cricket will keep pumping resources and they will get stronger. "Perhaps the teams that don't receive as much will start to realise that if they don't fund their teams, the going forward will become hard. The position New Zealand are in, if we don't start funding more, we are going to start falling behind the West Indies. We want to remain one of the top two teams in the world."